Cane-display attachment.



No. 746.880. PATENTED DEC. 15, 1903.

LE ROY ROBERTSON.

CANE DISPLAY ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION. mum ma. 7. 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented December 15, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

LE ROY ROBERTSON; OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO" JOHN YULE AND L. W. FORSTING, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 746,880, dated December 15, 1903.

Application filed February '7, 1903. Serial Ne.142,265. il lo model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LE ROY Ronnarsoma citizen of the United States, residing in Oakland, county of Alameda, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Cane-Display Attachments; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to a combination cane and devices for carrying and exposing a flag, an umbrella, torch, &c., and in properly attaching these devices to the cane or staff.

It also comprises details of construction, which will be more fully explained by referonce to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a section through the lower end of the cane with flag and umbrella attachment. Fig. 2 is a section of same part, the cane showing umbrella and torch attachments.

The cane or staif A may be made of any suitable or desired shape and material and properly tapered, having a ferrule at the lower end. The upper end is provided with a bandle, which may be fixed or removable and may, if desired, be provided with a reed or other sounding device.

The bodyAof the cane or stafi maybe made hollow and adapted to contain and conceal a flag coiled upon a short staff and having a socket or means by which when removed from its place of concealment it may be attached to the ferrule end of the cane, and thus displayed. These features not being a portion of my present invention are not further described.

In civic and other processions or where marching bodies are desirous of making a display it is desirable to carry torches at night, and during the day, if the weather is warm or the sunlight strong, it is desirable to carry some sort of protection. This protection is furnished in the form of a foldable umbrella 2, which may be of the style known as Japanese umbrellas. This umbrella has an upper tube 3, to which the convergent ribs 4 are pivoted, and the braces 5 are pivoted to the ribs intermediate between the inner and outer ends. These braces converge and are pivoted to a tube 6. This tube may be of any suitable or desired length and is separate and independent from the tubular head or upper end 3, as shown. The tube 6 has a hole made through it of such diameter that it may slide down a certain distance upon the ferrule end of the cane and be checked by the increasing diameter if the cane is tapering, or if the cane or staff he made straight by any suitable stop or device this tube 6 may be arrested at a certain point. Then by pressing the upper tube 3 downwardly it will be caused to approach the fixed tube 6, and by pressing down upon the convergent ends of the ribs. 4 it will spread the umbrella.

Various means may be employed for looking the umbrella in its spread position, such as a latch-wire extending down through the upper tube 3 and being adapted to spring over and engage withthe lower end of the tube 6 when the umbrella is properly spread, thus preventing it from closing, or various other forms of latches might be employed.

When used in connection with the flag, the tubular lower end of the flag fitting over the ferrule end of the cane would aot'as a sufficientstop to the upper tube 3 for daylight parades.

When it is desired to use the device with a torch or ornamental device of any description, the torch may also be provided with a socket, whioh is adapted to slip over the ferrule end of the cane, and the lower end of the tubular socket will act as a stop for'the tube 3, thus holding the umbrella open. If the torch be swung in the yoke 8, any drip or overflow from the torch will he received upon the top of the umbrella, and the clothing of the person carrying it will be protected.

If it be found desirable, the yoke which carries the torch or other ornamental appendage may be provided with a spring-catch, as at 9, the point of which may enter a hole or notch or other engagement upon the end of the cane.

It will be manifest that many difierent forms of attachment may be employed, and without further enumerating such forms I desire to employ any one which proves most suitable for the purpose.

If it be desired to use all of the devices the umbrella, the yoke, and the ornamental appendage and fiag-in unison, each part havin g a suitable socket, it will be manifest that all may be connected together in a complete structure and as easily dismounted when not in use.

The umbrella having no independent staff, consisting simply of the tubes 3and 6, movable to and from each other to open and close the umbrella and forming an attachment for the cane, may when removed be folded into very small compass, while the flag, as previously stated, may be rolled and placed within the hollow body of the cane by simply removing the handle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a cane or staff, of an n mbrella havingan upper tube fitted thereto and to which the ribs of the umbrella are pivoted; a lower tube on said cane or stafi and to which the braces of the umbrella are pivoted, said ribs and braces being permanently fixed to said tubes and said tubes being independent and movable to and from each other to expand or fold the umbrella; a third tube fitting over the ferrule end of the cane or staff and abutting endwise said upper tube; and means for locking the upper tube after the umbrella has been spread, said third tube having its upper end extending beyond the cane-ferrule to form a socket.

2. The combination with a cane or staff, of an umbrellainclndingindependent upper and lower tubes, one movable relative to the other and to which the ribs and braces of the umbrella respectively are pivoted; and a third tube fitting over the ferrule end of the cane or staff and engaging said upper tube, and

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LE ROY ROBERTSON. Witnesses:

S. H. N oonsn, JESSIE O. BRODIE. 

